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The Crisis in US Media and the Growing Movement for Media Democracy

Between the Lines Radio and Toward Freedom August 27, 2007 Between the Lines Radio and Toward Freedom

As corporate media in the US continues to distort the news, misinform the public and ignore important stories, a growing independent media movement has provided an alternative space for investigation, analysis and discussion of the news. Listen to this online recording of a panel of journalists and activists at the US Social Forum discussing the successes and challenges of the current independent media movement in the US. Speakers on this panel include Scott Harris, Nate Jones, Jen Angel, Elizabeth DiNovella and Michael Albert.

Who Controls Media Today and How the People Can Take it Back

Megan Tady August 16, 2007 Megan Tady

Most progressives already know that the nation's media is in the hands of the few, the rich, the white, and the male. We know that local control of the airwaves and newspapers is as rare as a "fair and balanced" Fox news report, and as tenuous as Cheney's stuttering heart. We know that to create any lasting and systemic social change - out with the old, in with the bold - we must take back the media that we've lost.

Behind the Scenes: Warlords’ Deadly Battle in Congo

Keith Harmon Snow August 9, 2007 Keith Harmon Snow

The "four-day war" that rocked Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo from March 22-26, 2007 was called a "cleaning" by insiders. The realities behind the scenes remain cloaked by the international media and world institutions, and the big losers, yet again, are the Congolese people. This is the inside story.

From the cover of Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

Book Review: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa

Robin Lloyd August 7, 2007 Robin Lloyd

I've just read two books by two people who care passionately about Africa and the AIDS pandemic that has swept and is sweeping the continent. The first, by Canadian diplomat and humanitarian Stephen Lewis is entitled Race Against Time: Searching for Hope in AIDS-Ravaged Africa. The second, by Canadian journalist Stephanie Nolen is 28 Stories of Aids in Africa.

Argentina’s Bonfire of Memory

Benjamin Dangl August 7, 2007 Benjamin Dangl

Pinochet and Videla

Guitar strumming and singing starts and stops with the passage of wine and steak. The gaiety of this party in Argentina is in contrast with the topic of conversation. Some of the partygoers are sons and daughters of dissidents persecuted in the dictatorship and they talk about disappearances and torture as if it all took place yesterday. The past keeps seeping into view, like the persistent smoke from the barbecue.

UN Human Rights Council: The Right to Food

Rene Wadlow July 31, 2007 Rene Wadlow

While specialists have always recognized that hunger is a complex issue and that underdevelopment cannot be measured by the number of hungry, the poster image of the underfed child has always served to draw attention to a new crisis, or a new refugee flow.